Category: Feeding and Care of Goats
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What is a proboscis in insects? Zinnias, Water leak, goats, and family pictures.
Science Tip: Proboscis: Think of a straw! In certain insects, a proboscis is a mouthpart that is tubular and flexible used for feeding and sucking. Moths, butterflies, and mosquitoes all have proboscis. In the picture below, the butterfly’s proboscis is bent at a right angle just below its antennae. Look at the video below. The…
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Trail Camera Pictures with turkeys, deer, white heron, hogs, and fawn. Also wasp, goats, and family.
Trail Camera Pictures- Turkeys, hogs, deer, and a fawn. Video Below: Buck, coyote, fox, and fawn. Slides Below: A Metric Paper Wasp is on the basil. This wasp will share its nest with similar species and will reuse its own nest. This wasp prefers to feed it larvae soft bodied insects like caterpillars. The other…
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Watermelon, Tsunami, Night Vision, Caterpillars, and Family
Our second watermelon patch has fruit! This watermelon is a different variety than the melons we harvested in August. The melon will have to get a little larger for us to determine the variety. Guess who looks fine today? Tsunami is no longer limping. BELOW: Night Vision binocular pictures of 1. Two deer in the…
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Goats, Fruit, and Herbs
Tsunami started limping on Thursday afternoon. At first, she would not put her foot on the ground. We decided to watch her and see if it improved before we rushed off to the vet. She seems to be doing a little better, but then last night she could hardly walk. She has not cried or…
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Have you heard of the SUPER BLUE MOON? Also, Bees
Science TIP: Below are pictures of the Super Blue Moon from last night. This is the last Super Blue Moon until 2037. Unfortunately, the phone camera could not focus on the bright light without blurring. Chanel 5 sums up what makes this moon a SUPER BLUE MOON. Below: The goats needed medication for five days…
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Goats, Bees, Butterflies, and stinging Caterpillars
Parasitic worms- Goats and Deer There are many theories on the length of the grass and pasture rotation to assist the goats in avoiding problems with parasitic worms. With the persistent drought, we did not realize our problem soon enough. Remember the deer (from previous blog) that had lumpy jaw from the nematodes? The drought…
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April is sick!
Because of the drought, the grass has not grown and has stayed very short since our last mowing. Goats eat the short grass and come in contact with parasites that cause problems. April is ill and parasites are the problem. Dr. Ann gave her three injections (vitamin B, vitamin K, and ivermectin) as well as…
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Goats and Fishing on the farm and Turtles Hatching by Ella Clare
The kids are not wild about being picked up, but they do appreciate getting to eat without the larger goats butting them out of the way. Below Quinn holds Fool (pictures 1, 2, 3, 4). Ike holds April while Quinn holds Peanut (pictures 5 and 6). April and Fool are 4.5 months old. Peanut is…
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Ronnie Visits, Goats, Water Quality, Ginger, and Cousins
Ronnie Sanfie visited the farm today. The goats were definitely happy that he fed them. Below: Picture 1: The corn is still growing, but has no tassels yet. Picture 2 and 3: Raspberry vines are continuing to grow in this heat, but no flowers or raspberries are present. The pumpkin vines wilt in the heat…
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Bats, Goats, Thermal Imaging, Cypress vine flowers, and Butterflies
There was an Absolutely beautiful sunset on August 2nd! The five videos below are very short clips of the bats flying around the lake at the farm. The bats are small and move very quickly, so they are difficult to film. The bats that visit the farm are Mexican Free-Tailed bats. This bat is a…